Wow, awesome deals! Wait, those are the full list prices new Kindle readers and Fire tablet have been selling at since they were announced this fall. No discount, no deal.

Look, we think the $79 Kindle and the Fire are excellent values for what they are, but it's just ridiculous that these were headlining Amazon's Cyber Monday announcement as if they were the biggest deals Amazon was offering.

What's worse is when big tech sites like TechCrunch just regurgitate the press release, posting a headline and intro paragraph about Amazon and Cyber Monday deals…and then immediately rattle off Kindle full prices as if they're the key "deals" Amazon is offering.

Also funny...in Amazon's announcement there was no mention of the Kindle DX that actually was discounted before this weekend, $120 off from $379 to $259. Now that's a deal.

You can pretty much always get 12 months Xbox LIVE for $48 at Amazon, and these games were marked down over the weekend too. MW3 was as low as $51.99 and Battlefield 3 was $39.99 at Amazon for a few days if you missed the Thursday and Black Friday special of $29.99 from Best Buy.

Newegg - Logitech K750 Wireless Solar Keyboard

Newegg's Cyber Monday sale included the Logitech K750 Solar-powered keyboard for $55, and it was rated a "decent deal" in Gizmodo's roundup.

But Logitech had a "dented box" special (product guaranteed brand new with full warranty, just possible cosmetic blemish to the packaging) for $39.99.

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Past Editor’s Notes and Discussions

peytonfarvingDec 01, 2011

Earlier today, we gave you a blog post that covered four laptops that were pretty good deals during Black Friday / Cyber Monday, but actually got BETTER after the big weekend was over. Now we'll show you a few deals from this weekend that...well, weren't even good deals in the first place.